|
Venetian Blinds (video Game)
''Venetian Blinds'' is a simulation video game, simulation video game developed by Activision co-founders David Crane (programmer), David Crane and Bob Whitehead for the Atari 2600. The game simulates the raising and lowering of Venetian blinds on a window, and was facetiously presented as a technology demonstration of Whitehead's graphical programming technique of the same name, although it does not use the technique. ''Venetian Blinds'' was created as a tongue-in-cheek in-joke in 1982 relating to a then-ongoing lawsuit between Activision and Atari, Inc. about use of Whitehead's Venetian blinds technique. It was not released publicly until 2003, as part of ''Activision Anthology'' for Microsoft Windows, Windows, macOS, and Game Boy Advance. It was later released in 2010 through the Game Room retrogaming service for Windows, Xbox 360, and Windows Phone 7. Gameplay The player controls grey Venetian blinds on an olive window in a brown room. The blinds can be raised and lowered b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Crane (programmer)
David Crane (born 1954) is an American video game designer and programmer. Crane grew up fascinated by technology and went to DeVry Institute of Technology. Following college, he went to Silicon Valley and got his first job at National Semiconductor. Through his friend Alan Miller he learned about potential video game design work at Atari, Inc. and began work there in 1977. After Crane and other programmers felt they were not being paid fairly at Atari, he left the company in 1979. Crane and Miller formed Activision, the first company to independently publish games for the Atari 2600. The company grew to be massively successful, with Crane's game ''Pitfall!'' (1982) being one the biggest sellers for the company. Crane continued to work for Activision making several games for the Atari 2600 and later the Commodore 64. After Activision hired Bruce Davis as the new CEO, Crane left Activison and later joined Garry Kitchen at Absolute Entertainment. At Absolute, Crane began workin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
